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Thursday, September 10th, 2009

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Evening topwater bite is strong at the moment. Zara spooks caught 4 Largemouth one 3 1/2lbs. Dropshot robo worms with a slow return. Senkos with no weight. Decent bite at the moment!
      City: Escalon

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 75-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Rick Tietz and I hit Berryessa today to tune up for our upcoming spooning seminar at Fisherman's Warehouse tomorrow night - 6 pm! We are very excited to do the seminar now since we had an outstanding day!! About 4:30 pm we found a school of bass feeding on shad and we had non-stop action for about an hour, using 3/4 to 1 3/4 oz Blade Runner (Duh!) spoons. They were still biting but we had to leave for home. We had 3 or 4 double hookups and several good fish. We caught smallies up to 3 1/4 lbs and several quality largemouth and spots over 2 1/2 lbs. Most were above average size school fish. Our best 5 weighed over 14 lbs. I don't really know how many we caught in our 7 hr trip - somewhere between 40 and 50 bass. We also got into a good spoon bite earlier, around 1 pm. We were fishing the main body from the mouth of the narrow to Putah Creek. Black/white and morning dawn colored spoons were our best colors.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I did drop-shot 2 nice bass on MMIII Robo worms, all the rest were on 3/4 to 1 3/4 oz spoons. Yes, our arms were sore at the end of the trip. Most of the bass were suspended which forced us to work the spoons at different depths rather than the usual lifting off the bottom. That takes a little more skill but is more fun since you are always guessing if you have a hit or not. Most of our bass were at the 40 foot depth, but we caught some from 25 feet to nearly 60 feet. I thought the bite was really special for 2 days after Labor Day weekend.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: i fished the north west part of the lake about 200 yards off shore off a point, i was actually trolling with my dad for Kokanne/steelhead. We hooked into a school of smallies and every pass we made atleast one of the rods would go down. It was probably about 30 feet or so, just try to make a long cast let her sink and reel it in real slow, with a little chrome hopkins spoon and hang on. I have also caught a 4 pound spot like that on Yessa
      City: napa ca

      Tips: good luck and let me know how it went

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hiked to Ilsanjo again today. Caught around 12 fish. Nothing big like last week. Only about 3 keepers total. Senko's, Roboworms, & crankbaits all worked. Biggest was probably 1 1/2 pounds. The water is up alot from last year, but it's still far from full.
      City: Santa Rosa

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

  • Napa County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey Mike,

      One more question: how deep?

      thanks,

      worm

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water @ 7:30 AM. Started punching matts, weeds, hyacinth and pennywart. Buddy and I ended w/ a 2#, 4# and a 9# til 2 PM. Then went out to Franks to do some striper fishing for a few hours. Buddy caught a 8#. Went back to the sloughs and start throwing lunker punker, hooked a 7.3#. Our best four 22 plus lbs. Not a bad day at the office.
      City: SaCToWN

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started at 6am to 12 noon. Tough bite. Big moon, labor day pounding, and 10 degree weather change may have had an effect. 8 bites total. Best 5 went 12 lbs.
      City: Madera

      Tips: Algae is the worst its been over the last two weeks. Fish are stout and eating well. Very healthy. Fish are all over the place. Look for structure. All fish went on brushogs. Could not get any fish deep. Everything was in 3-5 ft of water.

Monday, September 7th, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Lauched from Big Break. Gin clear, nutrient poor water with 5-8 ft. visibility made it an unusually tough day on the water. I spent more time running around in an attempt to find some good stuff, but at the end of the day, I only caught one 16"er flipping tules near deep water with current.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Fish harder.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished rattlesnake from 5 to 12 caught 12 total.one on spinnerbait one on chatterbait and the rest on jigs.
      City: auburn

      Tips: got alot of reaction strikes while reeling in the jig.

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my daughter and wife to back ponds not much action there. we caught 2 small ones under size and that was fun for my daughter and of course we threw em back.
      I met a cool guy and his girlfriend and their pitbull the guy was really cool if you see this post try to pm me i'd like to fish with you sometime or chat it up about fishing like we did that day .
      City: Fremont

      Tips: back ponds not really worth the time but mainlake should get better once the weather starts to cool off.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 78 - 80 degree

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Great long weekend at the lake. Fishing was decent in the evening. Not much going on during the day. Had a good moon going so night was best. Cranking was working best for us, Olive Shad pattern. Plastics not as good as usual, still got some fish on Green Pumpkin twin tails.
      City: Fernley,Nv

      Tips: Make sure everything is in order. Got checked for the first time ever by the rangers. We had everything in order, score one for us. They were very nice. No good fishing tips from them. They were scoping for hunters, so their focus was so much on us.
      Be safe.

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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: caught 8 biggest 4lb 8oz on rapala dt4 shad color south end of lake near swimming lagoon
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: crank, crank, crank

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the lake on Sunday. It was crowded and a fair number of boats out...Fished the earlier morning topwater bite for nada. Eventually hunkered down and fished a jig in about 20-25 ft of water and pulled in 5 before calling it a day around noon

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 78 deg.

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: 25 fish caught total. 3 to 5.8 lb. fish. All fish caught on a Revenge 1/2 oz. spinnerbait. Purple metalic shad. First time on this great lake. A few caught on front corner of docks or casting past a docked boat and moving my boat so that bait ran under the docked boat. All others caught off rocks in 2 to 6 feet of water.
      City: Las Vegas

      Tips: Coming in cold I first stopped at Clear lake Outdoors Tackle Shop at Soda Bay. I would like to thank the boys for hooking me up with the spinnerbaits that led to my success.

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

  • Nevada County
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My partner Dan and I got out earlier than usual and were on the water before sun up. We started catching them immediately on spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, and a chatterbaits in dark colors. When the sun hit the water we went to the deep water points. A #6 hog sucked in a black beaver a few feet from shore on the fall and broke Dans net when he tried to nab it, but we wrestled it into the boat. We picked up a few more stragglers junk fishing. The fish were still stacked in the 13 ft. depth (the edge of the weed lines) and we started cranking over them with kermits squeeze so that they would just hit the top of the submerged grass. It ticked off the bigger bass and we boated 2 more fish in the 6 pound range, plus several quality fish. Then.... the water skiers came out and we called it a day.
      City: auburn

      Tips: Slow didnt excite them at all today. The faster the better, and a couple small fish came when we were ripping the baits back in for the next cast.

Friday, September 4th, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Potato Slough starting at 8:00 a.m. Caught 6 bass to 2.5 lbs. using zipper worm and MM-III. All but one caught 2-3 hours after high tide between the rocks and the weed line on rocky banks with scattered tules. Also tried frogs and cranks in various colors but did not get any takers.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out at first light and ran towards the damn. Fished main lake points with only one fish. Caught it on a small wakebait above 10 feet of water. I then decided to run up the North fork and try a few spots. Caught one fish near surmeged rocks in about ten feet of water, again on a reaction bait(lipless crank). I noticed a lot of bait suspended in 10 feet of water near the 40 foot level. Still a lot of boat traffic. Water level nearing the 400 foot level and the lake will then be 5mph. I tried swimbaits,wakebaits,spinnerbaits,worms both shaky head as well as dart head in MM and Sexy shad, 8inch grubs in watermelon but missed a few fish(i think they were small), I also threw lipless crank in red eye shad. I did not throw the jig and hindsite now I wished I would have at least tried. Fished in water from 10 feet out to 40 feet. Talked with a couple of gentlemen and tehy only had three fish with a couple of missed bites. Slow day again for me on this lake. I also saw the sheriff sitting in the middle of the south fork monitoring traffic and boat regulations I am sure. Probably due to the labor day weekend.
      City: EDH

      Tips: Just go out and fish, mark low level areas for future use.

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Girlfriend and I on the water early. Tossed Jackall DD ripbaits in shad colors. Wacked'em pretty good. Eleven stripers went home with us, seven keeper LMB, also on ripbaits and top water. Five biggest for around 16 lbs, girlfriend big fish was a tad over four lbs.
      City: Sun City

      Tips: Fish ripbaits near grass beds, next to deep water. Toss top water over islands and humps. Long cast get more bites, spooky fish...

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took the family on a two day RV trip. Stayed at Snug Harbor with a dock just 40 feet away from the RV. The morning bite was better than the evening. I caught fish on a super spook and 1/2 oz jig. When things got slow I tried using a flick shake worm and caught several shaker small mouth bass and one nice keeper small mouth. No blacks bass over 2.5 lbs., but I did miss a huge blow-up on a spook yesterday morning, wish I hooked him. Total bass over two days was 12. Lots of blue gil for the kids and a few carp for a good fight.
      City: Millbrae

      Tips: First time fishing north Delta and it seemed that the fish where relating more to the trees in the water than rocks and weeds.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tough day on the water...started late about 0900. worked the south shallows with a swimbait...no luck. Moved to the dam and threw every crank bait I had with no lukc. Worked the wall with a dropshot and no luck. Finally found a few hogs in the shallows east of the dam. Only one hook up...2 lb smallie. It was good to be on the water but bass fishing was slow.

      Tips: Eventhough water temp is up, check the shallows.